Speaking of which, if anyone's played the demo for the new game Homeworld (Sierra) that's coming out, the game is remarkably reminiscent of the simulator game Ender plays in Ender's Game - tiny points of light flying about in space and all that.
b) Dan Rather has been the same Dan Rather that's been a news reporter or anchor for the past don't-remember-how-many-years. His statements and misstatements can be tracked reasonably well, since it's unlikely he shapeshifts and assumes the identity of, say, Ted Koppel.
No, I think the cost of these frivolous lawsuits is worth it to make America a living legal satire for the rest of the world's amusement. I mean, it's like something out of Jonathan Swift.
I mean, so 250 million people here live in shame, but almost 5 BILLION people worldwide will have a good laugh every morning when they read the latest news from America, where we have microwaveable foods that say "Heat for 6-8 minutes until hot. CAUTION - Product will be HOT! Do not spill on intern while same is giving Chief Executive a blowjob!"
That's absolutely untrue. She sued to get in with every intention of going, but dropped out because she was ostracized and couldn't handle the additional social isolation of being the sole female (at the time) over the standard rigors of Citadel training.
Yeah, what I find stupid is that so many of you seem to actually think this man really did believe the Pepsi ad.
Of course he knew it was a joke - anyone would. He just has to claim he doesn't so he can get the jet and make a big company take a hit for running a stupid promotion - "oh, drink lots of our stuff and you can have a jacket that advertises our product!"
This isn't a frivolous lawsuit, it's a very worthwhile one. I only wish more people had raised $700,000 and demanded a Harrier jet.
Yeah, what I find stupid is that so many of you seem to actually think this man really did believe the Pepsi ad.
Of course he knew it was a joke - anyone would. He just has to claim he doesn't so he can get the jet and make a big company take a hit for running a stupid promotion - "oh, drink lots of our stuff and you can have a jacket and advertises our product!"
This isn't a frivolous lawsuit, it's a very worthwhile one. I only wish more people had raised $700,000 and demanded a Harrier jet.
Everyone's heard about that story when the guy's antivirus software "detected" a virus, but it was actually Win95 being installed. Probably the major hurdle in an "adaptive" antivirus software will be that it will trigger all sorts of false alarms when software is installed.
We run our computers differently than we run our bodies - we're always installing software and such, some of which may run system-level commands. So the analogy is like getting biological implants all the time - our immune system frequently rejects implanted organs or some prosthetic devices. And there's really no way around it - the more vigorous the immune system, the more it's going to reject things which are not part of the "self," viral or not.
If the adaptive anti-virus software is really modeled after biological immune systems, I'll bet it our computers will be breaking out in rashes every time we install new DLLs or update the Registry. Well, where Windows is involved, anyhow.
If you have any friends with overactive imaginations, or if they tend to believe in flaky fantasy stuff (especially, say, the sort of wannabe goths that like to pretend to practice witchcraft and such), a good trick would be to put a pile of rocks somewhere where they would see it after waking up.
Also, if anyone happens to be camping in the near future, wake up before anyone else in the tent and go outside and make a bunch of piles of rocks (same number as there are people) for everyone to find when they get up.
I suppose you could also get up early, gather a bunch of sticks, and tie them toegether using a strip of cloth from your own clothing, and then hide in the woods and watch them when they find it, but that might be going a little too far.
I think there will be plenty of Blair Witch-related practical jokes played in the coming weeks.
In order to fight censorship and oppression moral legislation by our evil authority figures, here are some more things we can all do to fight for freedom.
Set aside a day to buy beer or cigarettes for some kids hanging around outside a convenience store. Whose place is it for the tyrannical store clerk to refuse to sell alcohol or tobacco products to minors?
Go to a gun show and buy a couple shotguns and TEC-9s for a couple geeks at the local high school. Why shouldn't they be able to exercise their essential second amendment rights? Tyranny!
If the store clerk isn't going to sell tobacco products to "underage" geeks, steal 'em! Yeah, hit 'em in the pocketbooks just like the film and record industry! Stealing from someone who doesn't want to sell will surely make the see The Right [Katz] Way! Robbery will do for liberating tobacco what MP3s did for online distribution!
Click on the "Over 18 Only" link to the porn site for a geek! I'm sure they'll appreciate you giving them a hand against tyranny!
Improvise! Pretend you're a medical doctor and write up fake prescriptions for marijuana for medical use for a geek! It's not fraud, it's rebellion!
Call names! Complain to theater owners and tell them they are too dumb and cowardly to stand behind what the industry produces. Ad hominem attacks will make them see the libertarian way!
Kids: Remember, there are plenty of pedophiles^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadults who are willing to help you out, and show you those adult things you're forbidden to do by the oppressive government!
Remember, if you don't like a law, just break it and encourage others to break it too! To hell with civilized self-governance!
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See, the difference here is in the intended attitudes of the Linux user and a Windows user.
Linux has largely held as the domain of the close-to-the-metal install-it-yourself take-responsibility engineer. (sorry about the stereotypes, but still...) People who want to be able to configure anything and everything about their system, solve their own problems instead of calling some help-line, and do things in tty terminals.
Windows has always been billed as "user-friendly" happy-stupid system, to remove the user from having to worry about grungy details, among which one is security.
So, one can make a legitimate case for the stupidity of the Linux user running things as root and falling prey to a trojan, and say that it's really a flaw on the part of the user, whereas Windows, with its much-vaunted "I'll take of everything don't worry" attitude, should be taking measures to plug holes like this, even if it's really the user's fault for running a foreign, untrusted program.
What I don't understand is what they would have done with Michael Collins. While they could have cut off communications between Armstrong and Aldrin to the Earth, Armstrong and Aldrin would in all liklihood still have been able to find some way to communicate with Collins, who was orbiting the moon in the capsule.
I don't believe that NASA would then deliberately make him strand himself there just to maintain the silence - it's not like they would be able to stop him from returning anyways. So eventually, messages from the two men left on the moon would reach people back on Earth, in the form of messages passed on by Collins.
People would look into it, Collins would eventually talk (probably before this document got released), and it would become general knowledge that communications had been deliberately cut off, and that would have been pretty bad for public relations.
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I think the best practical spinoff would be to use it to create a better grammar-checker for MS Word, et al.
Speaking of which, if anyone's played the demo for the new game Homeworld (Sierra) that's coming out, the game is remarkably reminiscent of the simulator game Ender plays in Ender's Game - tiny points of light flying about in space and all that.
Well, there's me too. And I'll even be at the party, with my friend the lush.
b) Dan Rather has been the same Dan Rather that's been a news reporter or anchor for the past don't-remember-how-many-years. His statements and misstatements can be tracked reasonably well, since it's unlikely he shapeshifts and assumes the identity of, say, Ted Koppel.
I hate Ted Koppel!
No, I think the cost of these frivolous lawsuits is worth it to make America a living legal satire for the rest of the world's amusement. I mean, it's like something out of Jonathan Swift.
I mean, so 250 million people here live in shame, but almost 5 BILLION people worldwide will have a good laugh every morning when they read the latest news from America, where we have microwaveable foods that say "Heat for 6-8 minutes until hot. CAUTION - Product will be HOT! Do not spill on intern while same is giving Chief Executive a blowjob!"
I think I'm going to set up a Linux box and offer the person who can break into it 1 QUADRIlLLION DOLLARS* as a prize.
* payable in $10 increments over the next 100 trillion years.
That's absolutely untrue. She sued to get in with every intention of going, but dropped out because she was ostracized and couldn't handle the additional social isolation of being the sole female (at the time) over the standard rigors of Citadel training.
Yeah, what I find stupid is that so many of you seem to actually think this man really did believe the Pepsi ad.
Of course he knew it was a joke - anyone would. He just has to claim he doesn't so he can get the jet and make a big company take a hit for running a stupid promotion - "oh, drink lots of our stuff and you can have a jacket that advertises our product!"
This isn't a frivolous lawsuit, it's a very worthwhile one. I only wish more people had raised $700,000 and demanded a Harrier jet.
Yeah, what I find stupid is that so many of you seem to actually think this man really did believe the Pepsi ad.
Of course he knew it was a joke - anyone would. He just has to claim he doesn't so he can get the jet and make a big company take a hit for running a stupid promotion - "oh, drink lots of our stuff and you can have a jacket and advertises our product!"
This isn't a frivolous lawsuit, it's a very worthwhile one. I only wish more people had raised $700,000 and demanded a Harrier jet.
This is probably actually the largest problem.
Everyone's heard about that story when the guy's antivirus software "detected" a virus, but it was actually Win95 being installed. Probably the major hurdle in an "adaptive" antivirus software will be that it will trigger all sorts of false alarms when software is installed.
We run our computers differently than we run our bodies - we're always installing software and such, some of which may run system-level commands. So the analogy is like getting biological implants all the time - our immune system frequently rejects implanted organs or some prosthetic devices. And there's really no way around it - the more vigorous the immune system, the more it's going to reject things which are not part of the "self," viral or not.
If the adaptive anti-virus software is really modeled after biological immune systems, I'll bet it our computers will be breaking out in rashes every time we install new DLLs or update the Registry. Well, where Windows is involved, anyhow.
If you have any friends with overactive imaginations, or if they tend to believe in flaky fantasy stuff (especially, say, the sort of wannabe goths that like to pretend to practice witchcraft and such), a good trick would be to put a pile of rocks somewhere where they would see it after waking up.
Also, if anyone happens to be camping in the near future, wake up before anyone else in the tent and go outside and make a bunch of piles of rocks (same number as there are people) for everyone to find when they get up.
I suppose you could also get up early, gather a bunch of sticks, and tie them toegether using a strip of cloth from your own clothing, and then hide in the woods and watch them when they find it, but that might be going a little too far.
I think there will be plenty of Blair Witch-related practical jokes played in the coming weeks.
Set aside a day to buy beer or cigarettes for some kids hanging around outside a convenience store. Whose place is it for the tyrannical store clerk to refuse to sell alcohol or tobacco products to minors?
Go to a gun show and buy a couple shotguns and TEC-9s for a couple geeks at the local high school. Why shouldn't they be able to exercise their essential second amendment rights? Tyranny!
If the store clerk isn't going to sell tobacco products to "underage" geeks, steal 'em! Yeah, hit 'em in the pocketbooks just like the film and record industry! Stealing from someone who doesn't want to sell will surely make the see The Right [Katz] Way! Robbery will do for liberating tobacco what MP3s did for online distribution!
Click on the "Over 18 Only" link to the porn site for a geek! I'm sure they'll appreciate you giving them a hand against tyranny!
Improvise! Pretend you're a medical doctor and write up fake prescriptions for marijuana for medical use for a geek! It's not fraud, it's rebellion!
Call names! Complain to theater owners and tell them they are too dumb and cowardly to stand behind what the industry produces. Ad hominem attacks will make them see the libertarian way!
Kids: Remember, there are plenty of pedophiles^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadults who are willing to help you out, and show you those adult things you're forbidden to do by the oppressive government!
Remember, if you don't like a law, just break it and encourage others to break it too! To hell with civilized self-governance!
See, the difference here is in the intended attitudes of the Linux user and a Windows user.
Linux has largely held as the domain of the close-to-the-metal install-it-yourself take-responsibility engineer. (sorry about the stereotypes, but still...) People who want to be able to configure anything and everything about their system, solve their own problems instead of calling some help-line, and do things in tty terminals.
Windows has always been billed as "user-friendly" happy-stupid system, to remove the user from having to worry about grungy details, among which one is security.
So, one can make a legitimate case for the stupidity of the Linux user running things as root and falling prey to a trojan, and say that it's really a flaw on the part of the user, whereas Windows, with its much-vaunted "I'll take of everything don't worry" attitude, should be taking measures to plug holes like this, even if it's really the user's fault for running a foreign, untrusted program.
Where do you get your information? I've never even heard of a fringe coverup conspiracy theory like this.
What I don't understand is what they would have done with Michael Collins. While they could have cut off communications between Armstrong and Aldrin to the Earth, Armstrong and Aldrin would in all liklihood still have been able to find some way to communicate with Collins, who was orbiting the moon in the capsule.
I don't believe that NASA would then deliberately make him strand himself there just to maintain the silence - it's not like they would be able to stop him from returning anyways. So eventually, messages from the two men left on the moon would reach people back on Earth, in the form of messages passed on by Collins.
People would look into it, Collins would eventually talk (probably before this document got released), and it would become general knowledge that communications had been deliberately cut off, and that would have been pretty bad for public relations.